Holding attachment.



PATENTED NOV. '7, 1905.

0 BENEDICT. HOLDING ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 14,1904.

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UNITED STATES" PATENT OFFICE.

HOLDING ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. '7, 1905.

Application filed November 14, 1904. Serial No. 232,641.

To aZZ whom i2; may cmwern:

Be it known that I, OHARLEs BENEDICT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Fruitvale, county of Alameda, State of California, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Holding Attachments; andI do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same.

The present invention is designed for use in connection with theaters,places of amusement, and public assemblage rooms or halls generally, thepurpose of the invention being to provide a device which will enableladies to dispense with the necessity of having to hold the hat in theirlaps during the performance or evening entertainment where the custom orrule provides for the removal of the hat during the evening performanceand also for the holding of the program or other article of a similarnature in order that the same may be in a convenient place for use whenthe person takes a seat for the evening entertainment.

Referring to the accompanying sheet of drawings, forming a portion ofthe present application, Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating twoof the holders attached to the back of chairs, a hat being illustratedas fastened to one of the holders and a program of the entertainmentbeing secured to the back of a chair by the opposing holder. Fig. 2 is aplan view of the holder detached from a chairback, the hat and programbeing removed and Fig. 3 is a detail vertical sec tional view of theholder, taken on line :10 ac, Fig. 2 of the drawings.

in the drawings the numeral 1 is used to designate the base-plate of theholder, which is formed with an enlarged head portion 2. To thebase-plate 1 is attached the curved plate 3, which forms an elongatedpocket 4 for the reception of a hat-pin or other impaling device 5. Theside or outer edges of the contracted portion of the enlarged head 2 ofthe base-plate are upwardly flared or upset, thereby forming graduallyinwardly tapered flanges 6, which serve to guide the point of the pin 5toward the receiving-pocket 4, thereby preventing the pin or impalingdevice slipping outside of the pocket when hastily moved toward thesame.

The holder is preferably attached to the back 7 of a chair within atheater or other public room or hall by means of small screws 8.However, any suitable means for attaching the holder to the back of thechairs may be employed.

By having the lower portion 9 of the base- I plate 1 inclined upwardlythe pin or impaling device is forced outwardly below the pocket 4 oraway from the back of the chair, there by preventing the point coming incontact with the chair-back and providing against damage thereto byscratching, as the point of the pin or impaling device is carried beyondthe lower edge of the pocket 4 of the holder.

The holder may be constructed of any suitable material, such as copperor aluminium.

The surface of the enlarged head portion 2 of the base-plate may, if sodesired, be utilized for the display of advertising matter.

In using the device so far as described as a holder for ladies hatswhere the same are required to be removed during the evening performanceit is only required that the hatpin or other impaling device 5. beforced through the hat 10 after its removal from the head and that theprojecting portion of the pin or impaling device 5 be inserted withinthe pocket 4, when the hat will be supported or held in position in thesame manner as though pinned to a fabric-surface. Inasmuch as thegeneral practice is to use a hat-pin for securing of the hat to the headof the owner, it is not required that an independent pin be supplied forthe purpose of attaching the hat when removed to the holder.

It is the intention to secure a holder to. the back of each chair withina theater or public room wherein public entertainments are given, sothat the occupant of each seat will be provided with a holder on theback of the seat immediately in advance of the one occupied.

To the under face of the base-plate 1 there is attached alongitudinally-extending flat spring or clamp-plate 11, which is ofsufficient pressure to hold an envelop, printed theater may bedistributed throughout the house and secured to the back of each chairat any time during the day prior to the opening of the house for theperformance, so that each person attending the theater will find aprogram attached to the back of the chair immediately in advance of theseat to be 00- cupied.

The described holder is exceedingly simple of construction, inexpensiveto manufacture, and will be found convenient and of great service,removin as it does, the annoyance of having to hold in ones lapthroughout the entire performance the removed hat, again dispensing withthe necessity of having a person stationed somewhere near the entranceof the theater for the purpose of distributing the programs during thearrival of the audience.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and desiredto be protected by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, a holder for the described purpose, thesame comprising a suitable baselate, of an enlarged head portionthereto, an a reduced body portion, of a curved plate secured to thebody portion of the base-plate for the greater portion of its length andforming a securing-pocket on the outer face thereof, said pocketreceiving a hat-pin or impaling device for supporting a hat thereby.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

CHARLES BENEDICT. In presence of N. A. AoKER, D. B. RICHARDS.

